Located symbolically between Bond Street and Savile Row in a refurbished Georgian mansion, its 10,000 square feet are divided by "floating curvilinear walls" and look as busy as Brighton beach in a blizzard.The luxury-goods business has been hit in swift succession by a weakening global economy, an enduring slump in Japanese spending, and the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The relationship between leisure, productivity and innovation may be curvilinear: more work and less leisure is effective to a point, and then declines.Anthony Pellegrini Research professor University of Greenwich LondonSIR – The common economist's reduction of leisure to time misses the many social and personal meanings of this complex and changing phenomenon.
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At the auction of Jan Krugier's private collection at Christie's in New York in November 2013 a curvilinear Baule mask from the Côte d'Ivoire fetched $1.4m, well above the top estimate of $800,000 (it once belonged to Picasso).Brussels, as a result of Belgium's colonisation of the Congo, is a centre for the tribal art market.
FEW people have charted the Broadway theatre with the curvilinear skill of Al Hirschfeld, the American artist and illustrator who died in 2003, five months shy of his 100th birthday.
In the late 1960s Stella expanded his use of colour in the Protractor series, an influential group of paintings marked by intersecting geometric and curvilinear shapes and plays of vivid and harmonious colours, some of which were fluorescent.
Beginning with the Temple Kneses Tifereth Israel in Port Chester, New York (1956), Johnson made fuller use of curvilinear (particularly arch) forms and historical quotation, a pattern continued in the art gallery at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. (1963), and the IDS Center, a multibuilding group in Minneapolis (1973).
By this time, Spanish architects were already developing their own intricate forms of vaulting with curvilinear patterns.
Other architects of note include Renzo Piano, known for his international museums; Aldo Rossi, whose critical writings rivaled his built works; and Paolo Portoghesi, who created public buildings from curvilinear forms.
Its tower is a curvilinear pyramid resembling eastern Indian Hindu temple towers, and its enormous brick mass is pierced with two circuits of vaulted corridors.
He was greatly influenced by the elegant, curvilinear style of Art Nouveau and the bold sense of design found in Japanese woodcuts.
